Re: [NSW] OP Trains wrongly described

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Geoff Lillico" <glillic@msn.com.au> wrote in message
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| Had the occasion to catch a train at Town Hall early this afternoon to
| return me to Strathfield. The next train was indicated at Town Hall as
| Blacktown bound and would be travelling via Olympic Park. The stopping
| pattern as far as Strathfield was Central, Redfern, Burwood and
Strathfield.
| The next stop after Strathfield was indicated as Olympic Park followed by
| Lidcombe and whatever after that. Fine.
| At Central, Redfern and Burwood the train was correctly indicated and
| announced. However upon arrival at Strathfield both the station
| announcements and the plasma screen had the train going direct to Olympic
| Park and TERMINATING.
| Whilst this did not affect me, there were many confused and dismayed
| passengers scrambling to alight as they did not wish to be turfed out at
OP.
| I firstly suggested to the safety jacketed station staff that the train
was
| wrongly described, but she showed no interest. Upon going down the ramp I
| approached the Station Manager, his assistant and others in a group at the
| Information Desk and advised that the staff on Platform 6 were not
| indicating the train correctly.
| The conversation was most polite and I have no corcern with their approach
| to me in that respect. However they advised that they indicated these
trains
| this way to avoid a lack of space for passengers wishing to join at OP to
| travel further westwards.
|
| OK I see their point, but this does not help the 300 or so passengers on
the
| train upon arrival at Strathfield who are faced with a prima facie case of
| the usual stuff up of station staff not correctly announcing trains.
|
| If CityRail wants to deter passengers joining these trains who wish to
| travel beyond Olympic Park to (1) provide space for passengers joining
there
| and (2) funnel them on to the faster train following which does not travel
| via OP, then these trains should be shown at the stations before
Strathfield
| as terminating at OP.

At Campbelltown they only announce that the train is going to OP, not Sydney
Terminal, they should be doing the same on the down.